Year 1 - Geography
Fieldwork: Autumn in the school grounds
Local area: where do we go to school?
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Unit Summary
Explore the school environment to identify features, describe locations using simple vocabulary, interpret aerial photos and observe seasonal change through early fieldwork.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use geographical vocabulary to identify seasonal signs in the school grounds.
Key Notes
- Recording daily weather conditions (e.g. temperature, wind direction and speed) develops weather-specific vocabulary.
- There are four seasons, and signs of each of them can be seen in the school grounds.
- Fieldwork outside, e.g. finding signs of autumn, develops geographical vocabulary, observation and recording skills.
- Geographers take photographs, draw pictures, make models, or add information to maps to record what they notice.
Vocabulary To Learn
- weather: The weather of a place is the day to day condition of the atmosphere, e.g. sunny, snowing, warm, etc.
- seasons: The seasons are four times of year that have different weather and they are spring, summer, autumn and winter.
- fieldwork: Investigating the outdoors using geographical tools and thinking, and gathering information or data is known as fieldwork.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Fieldwork only takes place in a field.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain this geography topic using two clear key points.
Recording daily weather conditions (e.g. temperature, wind direction and speed) develops weather-specific vocabulary. There are four seasons, and signs of each of them can be seen in the school grounds.
2. Define this geography term and use it in an example. 'weather'
The weather of a place is the day to day condition of the atmosphere, e.g. sunny, snowing, warm, etc.
3. Correct this common geography misunderstanding.
Mistake: Fieldwork only takes place in a field. Correction: You can complete fieldwork anywhere as long as you can get outside and look for changes and make observations!
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